About the day » Wednesday August 5, 1942Calender converter

• Jansje Slotboom, Veenendaal, Gelderland, Nederland († 1942)
• Antonius Gerardus Maria Logtenberg († 2013)
• Hendrik Jan (Henk) Kikkert, Vriezenveen († 1985)
• Donald Gene Wical, Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa († 1992)
• Adriana Evelina Geertruda Cornelia Henneman, Alkmaar († 2004)
• Jansje Slotboom, Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland († 1942)
• James Harold Lont, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 2016)
• Curtis Gary Shadoan "Gary" & "Splinter", Pulaski County, Kentucky ql († 1991)
• Judith Lorraine Freeman, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia († 2016)
• Johannes Nicolaas Hes, Koedijk, NH, Nederland († 2006)

• Andries Graaff (14), Schoorl
• Aaltje van der Staal (24), Auschwitz (Oswiecim) e.o., Katowice, Poland
• Alphoncius Robyns (71), Diest, Vlaams-Brabant, België
• Aaltje van der Staal (24), Auschwiz (Oswiecim), Polen
• Alice Miller (42), Greenleafton, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Catharina Pardon (79), Vogelwaarde
• Abraham Dagloonder (12), Auschwitz (Oswiecim) e.o., Katowice, Poland
• Aaltje Droomer (29), Auschwitz
• Alice Marie Wilhelmine DELVAUX (71), Kapellen (Belgium)
• Abraham Bierschenk (14), Auschwitz

• 1940 » Bobby Braddock, American country music songwriter, musician, and producer
• 1940 » Rick Huxley, English bass player († 2013)
• 1940 » Roman Gabriel, American football player, coach, and actor
• 1941 » Airto Moreira, Brazilian-American drummer and composer
• 1941 » Bob Clark, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2007)
• 1941 » Leonid Kizim, Ukrainian general, pilot, and astronaut († 2010)
• 1942 » Joe Boyd, American record producer, founded Hannibal Records
• 1943 » Nelson Briles, American baseball player and sportscaster († 2005)
• 1943 » Sammi Smith, American country music singer-songwriter († 2005)
• 1944 » Christopher Gunning, English composer

• 1929 » Millicent Fawcett, English trade union leader and activist (b. 1847)
• 1933 » Charles Harold Davis, American painter and academic (b. 1856)
• 1935 » David Townsend, American art director and set designer (b. 1891)
• 1939 » Béla Jankovich, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Maurice Turnbull, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (b. 1906)
• 1946 » Wilhelm Marx, German lawyer and politician, 17th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
• 1948 » Montagu Toller, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1871)
• 1952 » Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic (b. 1917)
• 1955 » Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer (b. 1909)
• 1957 » Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Wilhelmus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Robert
13. Jacob
14. Gerardus
15. Johan
16. Antonius

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Cornelia
4. Anna
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Margaretha
15. Grietje
16. Annie

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
• February 9 » Year-round Daylight saving time (aka War Time) is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
• June 11 » World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
• June 21 » World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
• November 4 » World War II: Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel begins a retreat of his forces after a costly defeat during the Second Battle of El Alamein. The retreat would ultimately last five months.
• November 10 » World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
• November 22 » World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.

The temperature on August 5, 1942 was between 9.1 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.